Mathematics is essential for everyday life and understanding our world. It is also essential to science, technology and engineering, and the advances in these fields on which our economic future depends.

It is therefore fundamentally important to ensure that all students have the best possible mathematics education. They need to understand the mathematics they learn so they can be creative in solving problems, as well as being confident and fluent in developing and using the mathematical skills so valued in the world of industry, higher education, and for everyday life.

The Mathematics Faculty will provide all students with a rewarding and enjoyable experience of mathematics. Through the development of students’ mathematical knowledge, we prepare students to become confident, numerate individuals who are able to utilise all aspects of mathematics in their chosen career and in their adult life.  This will be accomplished through our commitment to excellent teaching, a well-designed curriculum with an interesting variety of lessons to motivate and engage all students.

We have high expectations of all students so that they will recognise and achieve their full potential. We encourage students to develop their problem-solving skills by providing rich experiences of mathematics in the classroom. Learning from mistakes, taking risks, working both systematically and creatively, are some of the problem solving behaviours that we celebrate in lessons.

We provide all students with a challenging and enjoyable mathematics curriculum in a supportive and motivating environment. As part of our extended curriculum, we encourage our students to participate in enrichment programmes with Exeter Maths School, Axiom Maths Circles and, at Key Stage 4, to study the Level 2 Certificate in Further Maths.

Literacy in mathematics is developed via the teaching and discussion of Tier 2 and 3 vocabularies in lessons. In addition to encouraging wider literacy engagement a list of fiction books has been provided to the library so that students have access to a selection of literature that involves mathematical content. Guided reading texts are used throughout the curriculum to provide students with tools to make sense of the history of mathematics as well as develop their literacy skills and recognise the cross-curricular links attributed to reading and interpreting text.